So I'm bored enough that I'm watching the Panda Cam. And I see the panda. But I can't figure out which end is up. Seriously, it's like a panda blob. Maybe better known as a blanda.

I just got done flding 40 brazillion t-shirts.

OH! I used the term "brazillion" to a customer at the Saturday job. He spent 10 mintes expaining to me that the correct term was "bazillion", how many zeros it has, and where in the "illions" scale it came. He just didn't get it when I told him, "It's a made up quantity."

He spent 10 mintes expaining to me that the correct term was "bazillion",

Unless you're counting bras.

Bazillion isn't made up itself? Huh.

I think I might see ears on the panda. But I am not sure.

OH! I used the term "brazillion" to a customer at the Saturday job. He spent 10 mintes expaining to me that the correct term was "bazillion", how many zeros it has, and where in the "illions" scale it came. He just didn't get it when I told him, "It's a made up quantity."

that is hysterical!

I know Sophia, I can't identify any pandanatomy.

Damn. I'm tired. and bored. This sucks. Can't I just go home?

Congratulations to the Mr. and Mrs. Corwood Industries and Li'l Sphere!

Happy birthday Strega!

This pisses me off to the point where all I see is red: [link]

What's completely ironic about the whole thing is that the soldier is from Perry County, and the funeral and burial will be in Perry County. It is not a bastion of liberal thinking by any stretch of the imagination. 98% of the county is registered Republican. They support the war, and most other conservative ideals. Yet these idiots from Westboro Baptist are going to protest. Let the family bury their son and mourn in peace.

Phelps-Roper said she has no sympathy for Dunkleberger's family, which she said "is in full rebellion against God."

"They did that to themselves," she said. "They are the ones who turned that child, who they were responsible for, over to be raised for the devil."

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On its Web site, the church attributes ills that befall America -- including the Sept. 11 attacks, war and natural disasters -- to what it considers to be the country's acceptance of homosexuality, adultery, fornication and idolatry, among other "mighty sins."

Since the start of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the church has protested at service members' funerals. "God is killing these soldiers for the sins of America," the church says on its Web site.

Whatever happened to love thy neighbor as thyself? Do unto others as they would do unto you? Forgiveness? Tolerance? Acceptance? Right, they've been replaced by fear and the appropriation of faith as a tool of hatred.

I think the appropriate response to that is "Go sell your crazy someplace else, hon." Or possibly. "Wait, some old guy just died down the street! Go protest his heart attack as a sign of the coming apocalypse!!"

sara, are you telling me that the weather sucks and it will be treacherous?

Kat, I don't know. Keep an eye on it, is all I'm saying. Mom mentioned a storm coming through our area, but that's like tonight, and mountains only, really. My mother is a worrier and I keep telling her not to. But she was talking in one ear, so I relayed. So. And Mr. Funny would be AWESOME. I'd meant to get some for them (because I described them to dad and he was all "so they work exactly how? Oooh, super cooled?" and whatnot,) but procrastinated ordering online until too late.

I'm at my dad's office waiting for him to return from a memorial service for a colleague killed early this week. Freak gust of wind caught him on a bike and threw him.

I was earlier trying to find luminaria supplies and so far have struck out. Damned globalization. Used to be you'd pick up your flat or three of candles and bags at the local Albertsons. Now they are like "huh"? It's a travesty. Next thing you know, they won't even carry green chile.

There's a guy down the hall I've helped from work. I feel like I should go introduce myself, but that would be kinda weird, you know? "Hi, I'm that person in the box that gave you instructions a few times this year. I think. What's your email again?"

I think the appropriate response to that is "Go sell your crazy someplace else, hon." Or possibly. "Wait, some old guy just died down the street! Go protest his heart attack as a sign of the coming apocalypse!!"

There is a group of bikers who are mostly veterans that volunteer to escort the funeral procession and keep the whackjobs out of earshot and sight. Bless them, for the crazy is drowned out by the growl of Harleys.

I wonder if they've even considered the fact that they're just another one of this country's "ills."